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history of racial discrimination are the most problematic (i.e. states that the now-gutted Voting Rights Act was
intended to police). The Brennan Center is deep in preparations for a March 2020 trial to challenge Indiana?s
illegal purges.
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy: The Rights and Responsibility Initiative | Harvard Kennedy School,
Cambridge, MA
Current Grant Commitment: $500,000 per year for 2 years, 2019-2020, $1,000,000 total
Total Granted to Date: $500,000 SF Grantee Since: 2019
Leaders: Mathias Risse (Carr Center Faculty Director), Lucius N. Littauer (Professor of Philosophy and Public
Administration), Sushma Ramanm (Carr Center Executive Director) John Shattuck (Senior Fellow, former Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor)
Founding Year: 2019
Relationship: Vin and Carla
The Rights and Responsibility Initiative at the Carr Center for Human Rights and Policy, aims to address the erosion of
civil rights and liberties in the United States by bringing together Harvard faculty, fellows, and students to examine the US
system of rights, the challenges they currently face, and what can be done to renew them.
The initiative was developed based on the goals of creating and disseminating a non-partisan, evidence-based rights
agenda and associated research and policy products for the next U.S. administration in 2021 as well as creating a
convening space and ongoing working groups and research on specific rights issues. Their research is focused on core
areas, such as the right to democracy, equal rights, equality of opportunity, freedom of speech, due process of law and the
basic necessities of life.
This $1 million grant distributed over 2 years will underwrite the start of the Rights and Responsibility Initiative at the Carr
Center for Human Rights and Policy, while the Center seeks to attract additional funding.
Center for Victims of Torture | Jordan
Current Grant Commitment: $100,000 matching grant per year for 3 years, 2018-2020, $300,000 total
Total Granted to Date: $235,000 SF Grantee Since: 2015
Annual Budget: $23M Founding Year: 1985
Founder and Leaders: Curt Goering, Executive Director
Relationship: Stephanie
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is a US-based organization that works globally to heal the wounds of torture on
individuals, their families, and their communities and to end torture worldwide. CVT?s focus is on four primary areas
including: Rebuilding the lives of individual survivors of torture, severe war-related traumas and other gross human rights
violations; Building the capacity of other torture survivor rehabiilitation centers and human rights defenders; Monitoring
and evaluation, and research; policy advocacy, reaching 50,000 individual survivors and 200,000 family members.
Founded in 1985, CVT is dedicated to healing survivors and ending torture. The 2019 grant will support the New Tactics in
Human Rights program, intended to build the strategic effectiveness of human rights activists through training, mentoring,
and the provision of online resources and conversations. This program has made significant progress in the Expansion of
online learning capabilities; Expansion and enhanced capacity of New Tactics MENA (Middle East & North Africa);
Enhancing program monitoring and evaluation by continuing a two-year project to develop an evaluation method;
Expansion beyond MENA, especially to the US, which has been identified as a priority market for expansion and trainings
have been well received in the US; and revenue diversification, specifically via the US market.
Schooner is currently fulfilling a three year matching grant with CVT of $300,000 and 2019 is the second year. Previous
grants have allowed CVT to leverage the funding to find new donors, increase giving, and reinstate lapsed donors and
contributed to general fundraising by supporting six different target campaigns, both digitally and through direct mailings.
The 2019 grant will provide core program support for CVT?s New Tactics in Human Rights program.
The New Tactics program is intended to build the strategic effectiveness of human rights activists through training,
mentoring, and the provision of online resources and conversations. The program has and continues to make significant
progress in the following five primary focus areas:
- Expansion of online learning capabilities, specifically the Tactical Mapping Tool (TMT) which allows activists to
track key actors and interventions. TMT has been so well received that it was invited to present at the 2018
Techfugees Global Summit.
- Expansion and enhanced capacity of New Tactics MENA (Middle East & North Africa)
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